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SCHWIEBUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 394 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SCHWIEBUS , a See also:

town of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:province of See also:Brandenburg, situated in a fertile See also:plain, 47 M. E. of Frankforton-See also:Oder by the railway to See also:Posen. Pop. (1905) 9321. It is still in See also:part surrounded by its See also:medieval See also:wall, and has an old See also:market-See also:place, a See also:castle and many old houses. See also:Velvet, See also:cloth, machinery, bricks and candles are manufactured, and there are See also:flour-See also:mills, breweries, distilleries and See also:lignite mines. The territory of Schwiebus originally belonged to the principality of See also:Glogau, and in the 16th and 17th centuries was a See also:bone of contention between the See also:electors of Brandenburg and the emperors. A See also:compromise was arrived at in 1686, by which the elector received the lordship of Schwiebus on renouncing his claims to the principalities of See also:Liegnitz, See also:Brieg and Wohlau. The electoral See also:prince See also:Frederick, afterwards the elector Frederick III., had, however, in a private compact pledged himself to restore Schwiebus to the See also:emperor See also:Leopold I. when he became elector, and he did so in 1695, receiving £40,000 in See also:exchange. By the See also:peace of 1742, Frederick the See also:Great regained Schwiebus with the See also:rest of See also:Silesia, and it was incorporated with the See also:department of Glogau.

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